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San Pedro Garza García, Nuevo León, México, April 16, 2010 - Vitro America introduces a comprehensive line of architectural aluminum products designed to complement its full line of architectural glass at the Glass TEXpo™ 2010 conference, April 15…
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Everything old is new again, thanks to the 2009 façade renovation of the University of Pennsylvania's King's Court English House Residence Hall.
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Lister Trade Frames, finalists and winners of the national G-Awards for five consecutive years, have just become regional winners of the North Staffordshire and Cheshire Business Awards.
The new, Sky Pro Window Cleaning System, manufactured by NuStar, Inc., can safely clean a building in a fraction of the time of conventional washing.
Busick Insulated Glass and Radiant Glass Industries provide new heating alternative for residential and commercial applications Denver, Colorado-based Radiant Glass Industries (RGI) and sister company Busick Insulated Glass have collaborated to…
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TROY, N.Y. - Cityscapes of glass-clad buildings gleaming in the sun make Anna Dyson think about wasted energy. Dyson heads the Center for Architecture Science and Ecology, or CASE, a research consortium that wants to turn office windows into…
Aluminium rooflights and roof lanterns featuring triple glazed super insulating reflex+ glass units can now be specified to any RAL colour.
The largest thin film solar photovoltaic (PV) project in the United States, recently began commercial operations in California.
A building located in Madrid has undergone an impressive transformation to be converted into a totally new, modern and energy efficient structure.
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DuPont Glass Laminating Solutions has appointed Vitro Cristalglass, an affiliate of Vitro Europe, as its alliance partner for the promotion of DuPont™ SentryGlas® interlayers in Spain, Portugal and France.
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